pjeby comments on Human values differ as much as values can differ - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pjeby 05 May 2010 08:17:37PM 2 points [-]

Pjeby is describing traits that are common in politicians, managers and high school teachers.

And I'm asserting that the subset of those individuals who are doing it for a direct feeling-reward (as opposed to strategic reasons) are what we would call sociopaths or psychopaths. The remainder (other than Machiavellian strategists and 'opaths) are actually doing it to avoid negative feeling-hits, rather than to obtain positive ones.